It must always be remembered that their attitude throughout is one of hostility to this legislation, and that if their relation to the law after it is enacted is to be judged by the attitude towards the Interstate Commerce Law, it will be one of continued effort to destroy its efficiency and nullify its provision." Events have shown that he was right in his predictions, and his idea that the war against monopolies must last until they are deprived of their dominant position in politics is now widely accepted.
The leading demands of the small capitalists, in so far as they are independently organized in this new movement, are now for protection, as buyers, sellers, investors, borrowers, and taxpayers against the "trusts," railways, and banks.

Formerly they invariably took up the cause of the capitalist competitors and would-be competitors of the "Interests"-- and millionaires and corporations of the second magnitude were lined up politically with the small capitalists, as, for example, silver mine owners, manufacturers who wanted free raw material, cheaper food (with lower wages), and foreign markets at any price,--from pseudo-reciprocity to war,--importing merchants, competitors of the trusts, tobacco, beer, and liquor interests bent on decreasing their taxes, etc.
The great novelty of the "Insurgent" movement is that, in dissociating itself from Free Silver, Free Trade, and the proposal to _destroy_ the "trusts," it has succeeded in getting rid of nearly all the "Interests" that have wrecked previous small capitalist movements.

At the same time, it has all but abandoned the old demagogic talk about representing the citizen as consumer against the citizen as producer.

It frankly avows its intention to protect the ultimate consumer, not against small capitalist producers (_e.g._ its opposition to Canadian reciprocity and cheaper food), but solely against the monopolies.

Indeed, the protection of the ultimate consumer against monopolies is clearly made incidental to the protection of the small capitalist consumer-producer.